bazza_racer Wrote:
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> Bruninho Wrote:
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> > vesuvius Wrote:
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> > > From AFCA (forums.autosport.com):
> > >
> > > This year the difference between the soft and
> > hard
> > > compound will ve made clear with a green
> line.
> > A
> > > Bridgestone engineer: ''This week the colour
> > > doesn't yet have a meaning for the tyres,
> > they're
> > > both on the hard as well as on the soft
> > compound.
> > > We're willing to see on which tyre the line
> > stays
> > > visible most.''
> > >
> > > ''We're testing with a coloured line on the
> > side
> > > of the tyre, another option is to colour the
> > > entire side. In any case it's certain this
> year
> > > the colour will be green, that's been
> > decided.''
> >
> > [
www.f1today.nl]
> >
> > Damn, why dont they just paint the logos with
> that
> > green colour???
>
> Because it's too labour intensive to do that,
> especially as it takes someone at bridgestone 30
> seconds to hold a green paint pen to the wheel
> whilst it's rotated being balanced.... done.
I still don't understand what was wrong with the coloured sidewalls รก la CART - i read last year that they didn't have the equipment in their F1 factory, but surely that's an easy fix?